"On February seventh in Marin, David Warkentin took a day to teach his favorite features of MacRepertory and ReferenceWorks. We captured it on video and have transferred it to DVD so that you can now have this great seminar in your own home and at your pace.

We've broken the training into two DVD's: MacRepertory, 148 minutes, starts with a wonderful discussion and step-by-step demonstration of a new concept in selecting rubrics and analyzing; this discussion will dramatically improve your prescribing and confidence! David slowly walks through using the repertory and the Theme Palette. Other segments include discovering the central themes of a family, the Concept and Family graphs.

ReferenceWorks, 102 minutes, slowly examines how to craft a search phrase so you always find exactly what you want. From there David goes on to show tricks to focus your results, using contextural menus to get more information, and drop and dragging. The last section explores the difefrent ways that Mac-Repertory and ReferenceWorks can now talk to one another.

Each DVD lasts about three hours and is $40. We hope to have copies for sale on May 1.

Here's what some of the attendees said:

"I highly recommend doing David's workshop on MacRepertory and ReferenceWorks. Even though I have used the programs for a long time, there is always a need to be refreshed in their capabilities and also to become more familiar with the new features that David is exploring with the programs. To gain the most from these programs, it is really worth hearing and seeing what David has to say and demonstrate."   Richard Pitt

"It was a very useful day. I liked the way David did the whole training, using an example, showing the bits and pieces in the process, rather than the usual "here's how you open the program" and "here's how you do this". It was a more storytelling type of approach, which I liked. I am now using the theme palette extensively to work on my difficult, challenging (and even my easy) cases and I'm very much liking the results. Great idea; great programming and an excellent tool."   Judy Schriebman

"The seminar was definitely very useful. David is so knowledgable; and he has such a nice style of teaching. I have been to a couple of these trainings and every time I (re)learn features (there are so many wonderful things!) and then incorporate them in my practice. I recommend these seminars to anyone who wants to become more effective in their prescribing."   Peggy Chipkin

"It is great to hear the creator of this software speak about the how's and why's and to hear him explain the reasons for the workings of this software. I am very excited about really understanding the 'Concept Graph' and have started using it for remedy differential purposes. I also continue to really appreciate this program as a fabulous teaching tool. I recommend this training day to anyone using homeopathic software. Highly recommended!"   Anneke Hogeland

"The value of David's sessions is that he illuminates to me that I still use only about 10% of the program's real capacity and that it has such possibilities in the analysis of every case. He demonstrates it with obvious passion like he's showing off a newborn child; and he demonstrates how creative one can be in the analysis of any patient data. It's valuable stuff."   Alastair Gray